Example sentences of "of [noun] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it .
2 Hierarchy in a grid is most readily achieved by superimposing one set of parallels over the other .
3 Where the landlord is able to choose how to divide ownership and responsibility for a party structure it is suggested that the structure be divided between adjoining owners and that each owner have an easement of support over the other 's half .
4 The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred .
5 ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet .
6 Polling was essential and scurs or ‘ slugs ’ were strictly ruled out , and a fringe of hair over the forehead was desirable .
7 Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI .
8 So why do n't we both get back to work now , instead of nattering on like a couple of housewives over the garden fence ? ’
9 After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office .
10 During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant .
11 It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old .
12 The output from this stage represents the geographical distribution and intensity of emissions over the region .
13 Jürgen Happenstiel-Imhausen , chairman of Imhausen-Chemie , resigned at the end of March over the affair and was arrested on May 9 .
14 If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany .
15 UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction .
16 First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog .
17 Some writers have attempted to draw up some general guidelines which relate the weeding of research material to the concept of obsolescence — the diminution in the use of literature over the course of time .
18 The passage quoted above can then be read not as a denial of conflicts over the use of common land , but as a comment on them .
19 The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million .
20 It expects to get venture funding of $2m–$4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
21 Trading standards officers in Strathclyde and Lothian regions yesterday reported that they had received dozens of queries over the offer .
22 Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle .
23 He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period .
24 Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation .
25 Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture .
26 All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position .
27 In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i .
28 Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame .
29 State briefly , in relation to planetary observations , the advantages of radar over the receipt of naturally emitted radio waves .
30 Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface .
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